{"id":161233,"date":"2018-04-23T06:20:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T10:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161233"},"modified":"2018-04-23T06:20:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T10:20:56","slug":"joma-not-in-position-to-impose-talk-conditions-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/23\/joma-not-in-position-to-impose-talk-conditions-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Joma not in position to impose talk conditions: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_161234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161234\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/duterte-joma_5adc19d02a6223_31074804.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161234\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/duterte-joma_5adc19d02a6223_31074804.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cWhat the President said was if peace talks will resume, he is welcome to come home. The President will assure his security and the fact that he will not be arrested. Beyond that, the President has not acceded to any further terms,\u201d Roque explained. (PNA photo)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cWhat the President said was if peace talks will resume, he is welcome to come home. The President will assure his security and the fact that he will not be arrested. Beyond that, the President has not acceded to any further terms,\u201d Roque explained. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malacanang on Monday said Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria \u2018Joma\u2019 Sison is not in a position to set terms before returning to the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if he is in a position to provide for conditions,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, President Rodrigo Duterte prodded Sison to come home, giving a 60-day time frame for peace negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte has even said he will pay for Sison\u2019s airfare, billeting and food and would allow the communist leader to set up camp where they can talk &#8220;minus arms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Sison said he will \u201ccertainly return when a significant advance in the peace negotiations has been achieved within the framework of The Hague Joint Declaration\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The communist leader also wanted an assurance that his comrades and lawyers are satisfied with legal and security precautions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the President said was if peace talks will resume, he is welcome to come home. The President will assure his security and the fact that he will not be arrested. Beyond that, the President has not acceded to any further terms,\u201d Roque explained.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said Sison\u2019s new condition \u201cwill have to be discussed\u201d by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Roque clarified that the 60-day \u201cwindow\u201d will commence \u201cas soon as both sides have clearly agreed to resume peace talks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the government and the CPP-NPA will have agreed to address the root causes, then it should not even take 60 days,\u201d he said.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malacanang on Monday said Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria \u2018Joma\u2019 Sison is not in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":161234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[38957,36331,31449],"class_list":["post-161233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-communist-party-of-the-philippines-cpp","tag-jose-maria-joma-sison","tag-presidential-spokesperson-harry-roque","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}